Railway-torpedo applier.



No. 830,622. PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

P. F. SULLIVAN.

RAILWAY TORPEDO APPLIER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAYBE, 1906.

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PATRICK F. SULLIVAN, OF SEDALIA, MISSOURI.

RAlLVlIAY-TORPEDO APPLIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

Application filed May 26, 1906. Serial No. 318,952.

To all whom it 77m concern.-

'Be it known that I, PATRICK F. SULLIVAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Sedalia, county of Pettis, andState of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Torpedo Appliers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to railway-torpedo appliers, which may be operated from a mov ing train, tender, or car, and provides a method of placing, leaving, and attaching the regular steel-spring railway torpedo to the rail of any railway using the T-rail, while the operator remains on the engine, train, tender, or car, while the same is going at any rate of speed or remaining stationary; and with this object in view the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed. 1

The mechanism is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the entire device; Fig. 2, an end view of the same, and Fig. 3 represents the top view of the machine or device.

Similar letters are used to represent like parts in each of the three drawings, which are drawn natural size for the ordinary-sized rail now in use; but said device is to be made in difierent sizes of the same construction to conform to different-sized rails.

The handle A of the railway-torpedo applier is to be constructed of gas-pipe or other suitable tubular material and of length suflicient to allow the operator to remain on the platform of the car, engine, or tender and so threaded on its outer lower end as to fit into a circular opening in yoke B at point a by be- The stop-bar D is passed through a close-fitting opening in han dle A at point 1), parallel with and above yoke B. The coil-spring E is inserted in the lower end of the tubular handle A until it comes in contact with the stop-bar D. The presseryoke C, to which is riveted spring guide-bolt F, is passed upward through holes in yoke at point e and through holes at both ends of stop-bar D at point d, fitting loosely in each, so that free motion will be attained, and securely fastened by nuts allowing free upward motion of the pressenyoke when .pressure is exerted on the lower portion or foot of the same from below The inverted yoke B is provided with a middle threaded opening to receive and immovably hold the handle A and a hole on each side or arm at an appropriate distance to receive the arms of the tion of the rail by means of a steel-spring clutch in the shape of the capital letter C with the opening of the letter downward, is placed in the device by expanding the springolutch above mentioned until the ends of the spring are forced into the grooves e e, forming an inverted U, to the middle of which the torpedo is fastened, coming in contact with the presser-yoke C at the point where the spring guide-bolt is riveted, thereby being firmly held in place by the pressure of the spring E. The operator takes his position over either rail, holding the device by the handle, so that the yoke B is at right angles to and astride the rail, when by a downward pressure the resser-yoke C is forced upward by the torpedo coming in contact with the rail, the terpedo following the presser-yoke until the spring-clutch is released from the grooves at e e, when it immediately clamps upon the rail and is thereby released from the railway-torpedo applier.

I am aware that appliances have been made for placing torpedoes from a moving train, and therefore do not claim, broadly, the invention of such idea; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination of a handle, the'threaded outerlower portion of which is provided with a central opening at the lower end, and a suitable opening to receive the stop-bar, an inverted yoke provided with a threaded 0 ening in the middle to receive the handle, and two openings appropriate to receive the arms of the presser-yoke, the lower portion or ends of the arms being bent inward and upward to form grooves adapted to receive the ends of a to edo-s rin a coil-s ring arranged in hollow lower porfiion of ha iidle, a guide-bolt fitting in central opening of the coil-spring and securely fastened to the middle and inner por tion of presser-yoke, a resser-yoke held in position by the coil-spring and the openings in the end of the stop-bar, and those on each side of middle of inverted yoke, provided with nuts on each threaded end to hold it in I invention as my own I have signed name position, a stop-bar provided with openings I to this specification in the presence of two through each of its outer flattened ends suitsubscribing Witnesses.

able to receive the ends of the presser yoke, i PATRICK F. SULLIVAN. 5 all of which is substantially as set forth in the l XVitnesses:

drawings. GEORGE F. LONGAN,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 1 WILLIAM Dow. 

